After sending a few more jolly emails asking what Smart Homes is doing/intends to do to rectify our defective brickwork, and after receiving the usual vague and non-committal replies, I ventured up to the block to see if there was any action. I was surprised to see that someone had organised something to occur, something that might lead to progress. This appeared intentional. No actual action, no actual building, but what we have now are a series of blue lines that have been painted onto the outside and inside walls. We’re hoping these lines are not our creative young generation expressing themselves through art (bless ’em), and instead the lines identify patches where the brickwork is as shonky as O’Reilly’s on a good day.
So, what have we got after a couple more weeks? Well, the slider below shows just how busy the ‘workmen’ have been. Banksy couldn’t be prouder of this work. I’m hoping the acronym “TD” means Tear Down, or even Total Destruction. There were so many defects, they replaced their spray can with a spray keg.
I’ve joined the FarceBook Group ‘BGC Class Action’. Emotionally, it was a mistake because now I can see many other stories of delays and poor quality, and they’ve been flooding and expanding my depression lobe, which up to the age of 61 has been a relatively small area of my brain. But it’s been comforting to me, to read about other people’s misery apart from mine. It’s also a comfort to me knowing that you, the readers, can get a warm satisfaction from reading about this project – one which is increasingly resembling an episode of The Keystone Cops.
After I joined my feelgood group, I learned that the class action is exclusively geared at construction delays, and the personal losses associated with them. Consequently, I didn’t actually join the class action, as I can’t see how we are personally affected by all these delays, Sure, they piss me off, but it’s an inconvenience rather than a quantifiable impediment. Believe me, if I could turn the delays with this whole sorry excuse for a project into cold hard cash, I’d take a punt.
James Hacker:
All we get from the civil service is delaying tactics.
Sir Humphrey Appleby:
Well, I wouldn’t call civil service delays “tactics”, Minister. That would be to mistake lethargy for strategy.
Wow , this is shocking . I looked up their reviews online and they were bad . Builders should not be allowed to get away with all their shoddy building . Hope they get back on track for you real soon .
Thanks Maree. “Real soon” isn’t a phrase that is springing to mind for me!
Take heart earth Steve and call it progress! At least they’ve been there and made it look like they’re doing something. But it also could be a ploy to lull you into a false sense of security. I’ll be interested to see the progress when I get back in February. I’ll have to get updates from Paul in the meantime! He can check it out while you’re away.